The 45-day Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj got here to an in depth on February 26 with a closing holy dip on the event of Maha Shivratri. Over 66.3 crore individuals attended the congregation, as per complete footfall numbers by the Uttar Pradesh authorities. However the State’s job is just not full but. It’s now carrying and distributing the Sangam water, which is taken into account sacred to all 75 districts. The UP Police’s Fireplace and Emergency Companies Division has been roped in to make use of hearth tenders for the distribution course of, permitting those that couldn’t go to the Kumbh to “acquire the water, take it dwelling and use it for holy tub.”
‘You’re playing with World Warfare III’
A uncommon and tense altercation broke out on the Oval Workplace minutes into the official assembly between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his United States counterpart, Donald Trump. Zelenskyy, who sought to shore up assist from Trump because the Russia-Ukraine warfare rages on, was met with vocal anger and resistance. At one level within the assembly, Trump mentioned: ’“You’re in no place to dictate what we’re going to really feel. You don’t have the playing cards proper now.”
Following the assembly, Trump mentioned: “He can come again when he’s prepared for peace.” The US President appeared accountable Ukraine for prolonging the battle, despite the fact that Russia’s invasion in 2022 was broadly condemned as an act of unprovoked aggression. For Trump, the battle represented an unacceptable drain on US sources — a degree he repeatedly emphasised through the tense change.
WATCH the seven minutes when Zelenskyy, Trump, and his Vice-President J D Vance’s Oval Workplace meet descended to a heated public spat.
The confrontation, which led to Zelenskyy’s White Home go to being lower brief, sparked a wave of reactions and concern over the way forward for US-Ukraine relations.
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India’s star participant Savita Punia and her hockey —now a love story for the books— is about a reluctant goalie who fell in love with the sport. “Bas ek baar… (Simply this one time),” Savita Punia saved telling herself as she struggled. Right now, she belongs to a technology — that features the likes of Rani Rampal and Vandana Kataria — that remodeled girls’s hockey in India. My colleague Mihir Vasvada meets Punia at her Sirsa dwelling after she just lately performed her three hundredth worldwide and now has set her sights on Los Angeles 2028.
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Sensex at BSE fell greater than 1,400 factors, or 1.9 per cent, on Friday to shut at a close to eight-month low. Anish Tawakley, co-CIO of Fairness at ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, explains that this may’t be attributed to only the commerce tariff threats by the Donald Trump-led administration in america. Excessive valuations and a slowdown within the Indian economic system have led to an outflow of funds by international portfolio traders and a market fall. On a barely higher notice, the basics of the Indian economic system stay intact.
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“The period of incremental progress is over. With nations competing to dominate the ecosystem, India must do greater than be a participant.”
Within the Opinions part, BVR Subrahmanyam and Debjani Ghosh of Niti Aayog present perspective on why India can’t afford to be a mere participant within the AI revolution and should lead its disruption. At this decisive juncture, the hallmark of India’s AI management should be “daring, visionary, and unapologetically bold,” they write.
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A Full Unknown: The “stunning, stunning” Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, the singer, the person and the shape-shifting artiste who has been round for about 60 years is “spectacular”, writes Shalini Langer. Nevertheless, Timothee comes throughout as “too fairly” as Dylan as soon as mentioned—for the darker shades, too cool for the mercurial adjustments.
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